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Junior Winter Tennis Competitions

Winter junior competition provides competitive opportunities nationwide for juniors at all levels from local, county, regional through to national level and run from 1st September to 31st March.

Winter county tour

The winter county tour comprises both grade 4 and 5 competition for juniors from 8U through to 18U age groups.

For the 2017 Winter Season (September 2017 – March 2018) 10U to 18U age group events in the winter county tour will using the FAST4 scoring format whilst 9U will use the best of 3 tiebreaks to 7 points or one match tiebreak to ten points.

Winter county tour information pack

Winter linking tournaments - 2017-2018

What is FAST4?

FAST4 Tennis provides a simple, exciting way of speeding up a conventional tennis match. The fundamentals of tennis remain the same, but there are four innovative rules that ensure matches are fast, competitive, exciting and can be completed in a reasonable period of time.

Why FAST4 Tennis?

Having listened to players and parents we have adopted this format to:

Reduce time – we accept parents lives are busy and you want quicker matches. FAST4 matches take around 45 minutes.

Play more matches – with the introduction of FAST4 scoring format players can now play up to 4 matches in one day

Accept more players – in oversubscribed areas of the country organisers will be able to accept 16 players (subject to court bookings) reducing the number of entries turned away.

Rules and regulations

In relation to LTA Staged Winter Competitions (ie. National Tour, weekend Winter Regional Tour, and weekend Winter County Tour tournaments) a player can enter only one competition at each grade in the same age group taking place on the same weekend.

Winter Regional Tour

The Winter Regional Tour (WRT) is a series of Grade 3 competitions, staged by the LTA, which provide regional level competition on indoor courts from September 2017 to March 2018 for the 9U – 18U age groups.

Winter linking tournaments - 2017-2018

The aim of the WRT circuit is to provide aspirational junior players with an opportunity to:

Develop their skills – putting their coaching/practice into match play

Compete against a variety of players

Earn a link space from a County Tour competition

Earn a link space to the National Tour competition

Improve their ranking

The Tour offers the players:

Guaranteed indoor matches

Experienced & accredited officials

Friendly & comfortable venue

Tournament Timeline

Action

Timeline

Tournament opens for online entries

46 days before the tournament date

Closing deadline for entries

10am Tuesday, two weeks before the tournament

Withdrawal deadline

10am Monday, one week before the tournament

Draw published

By 10pm Wednesday, before the tournament date

Results uploaded to player’s profile

Friday after completion of the tournament

LTA Staged Rule

In relation to LTA Staged winter competitions (ie. National Tour, weekend Winter Regional Tour, and weekend Winter County Tour tournaments) a player can enter only one competition at each grade in the same age group taking place on the same weekend – see Regulations on Overlapping Competitions

Winter National Tour

The Winter National Tour (WNT) is a series of Grade 2 tournaments, staged by the LTA, which provide national level indoor competition for the 10U – 18U age groups from October 2017 to March 2018.

The end of the Tour culminates in the Nike Winter National Tour Finals for the best players in the Tour, from each age group, to determine the Champion.

Winter linking tournaments - 2017-2018

The aim of the WNT circuit is to bring together the stronger aspirational payers providing them with an opportunity to:

Test & develop their skills against other strong players

Earn a link space from a Regional Tour event to the National Tour event

Earn bigger ranking points

For the 10U & 12U age groups there are three tournaments in the Tour. For the 14U – 18U age groups there are two tournaments in the Tour. There are no longer any 9U Winter National Tour competitions.

The Tour offers the players:

Guaranteed indoor matches

Experienced & accredited officials

Friendly & comfortable venues

Tournament Timeline

Action

Timeline

Tournament opens for online entries

46 days before the tournament date

Closing deadline for entries

10am Tuesday, two weeks before the tournament

Withdrawal deadline

Various – please check relevant tournament details

Draw published

By 10pm, two days before the tournament date

Results uploaded to player’s profile

Friday after completion of the tournament

LTA Staged Rule

In relation to LTA Staged winter competitions (ie. National Tour, weekend Winter Regional Tour, and weekend Winter County Tour tournaments) a player can enter only one competition at each grade in the same age group taking place on the same weekend – see Regulations on Overlapping Competitions

Winter National Tour Finals 2017-18

The Winter National Tour finals bring together the most successful players, according to the positions of the Winter National Tour leaderboard, to determine the champions in each age group at the end of the season. Players will have accumulated leaderboard points from each Winter National Tour event (Grade 2) which will feed into the leaderboard for each age group.

How will players know if they are in the Finals

The relevant players will be notified via email shortly after the last Winter National Tour event and once the final leaderboard is calculated.

Junior Internationals

Junior Internationals are tournaments held in Great Britain that are part of the ITF junior circuit or the Tennis Europe junior tour. The ITF junior circuit caters for juniors in the 18U age group, whereas the Tennis Europe Junior Tour caters for players in the 16U, 14U and 12U age groups.